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Re: Rights to free goods? (was Re: What happened?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 5 Jul 1999 15:06:30 GMT
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lpieniazek@novera.#nospam#com
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Richard Dee wrote:
> I do not have these federalist papers to which you refer, so
> must trust your *interpretation* of them. Assuming a copy
> exists on the 'net, I shall read them. (Open invitation for
> someone to e-mail me a copy of them, text-format, zipped, blah, blah).
It does. A quick search will turn it up online. I shan't provide the
free good of doing your research for you in this case. I went out and
bought a copy in the bookstore because I wanted to be able to read it on
the plane. Note that the papers themselves are in the public domain at
this point, but the most popular edition has commentary and is therefore
copyrighted.
> You should therefore be opposed to government-funded and -run
> innoculation programs, which have helped to protect *your*
> children from many diseases, as well as others'.
Your wish is granted. I am opposed. They're a free good, after all.
> And by
> innoculating the masses, have further helped to protect
> your children.
Please show that this benefit can only be provided by having the
innoculation free. Certainly you're not going to allege that we could
not require everyone to get these, and pay for them themselves (with
those totally without funds getting it added to their back taxes they
need to work off)?
However I dispute that 100% innoculation is required, or morally
justified. My sister-in-law, damnfool that she is, refused on moral
ground. Her kids and mine mix, and they may well die from diseases mie
are immmune to and spread to them. Oh well.
> Or would you leave that, too, to
> ability to pay and merit of position? (Class-based, non-
> democratic, etc.) --
Please elaborate, I don't follow. How is merit "class-based" or
non-democratic?. We have equality of opportunity, or did, here.
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